Linux.com: An Interview With Sean Perry

[ Thanks to Jeff Alami
for this link. ]

“Sean Perry is a Debian developer working on the boot floppy
code and the task-laptop package, which allows for the easy
management of packages commonly used in laptops. He also maintains
several Debian packages including an image viewer, a graphical
front-end to a common MP3 player for Linux, and a POP3 server in
the early stages of development.”

“Linux.com: What do you think of the current Debian development
process?”

“Sean Perry: We have a great deal more people as registered
developers in total than we have doing daily work, which is one of
the problems with Debian. For example, we have about 100 or so
packages related in some way, shape or form to Perl. So when we
move to Perl 5.6, we have to get all of these people to get off
their butts and update their packages. This is the biggest issue we
run into in Debian. It’s a very core issue that needs to be
fixed.”

“The good thing and bad thing about Debian is that it’s a bunch
of us doing it cause we like to. None of us are doing it because
we’re being forced to. None of us are doing it because it’s our job
to do it. I happen to be paid at VA to work on Debian. It was a
choice I made to give me more time to work on Debian. I did not get
hired at VA and then become a Debian developer.”

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